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...centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent's jungles, veldts and hills, the Protestant churches of Africa met together. Some 200 leaders gathered for a ten-day All-Africa Church Conference at St. Anne's Anglican Girls' School at Ibadan, Nigeria...
...Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Dr. John Mackay, honorary chairman of the International Missionary Council. South African Novelist Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton was named one of a five-man committee to explore ways and means of developing the Ibadan conference into a continuing association...
...years since World War II, half a dozen new universities have sprung into being to provide training in arts and sciences to the sons of illiterate bushmen. In one of the largest of them, at Ibadan, an all-black Nigerian city of 459,000, eager young Africans full of ideas on how to remake the world adopt the manners and academic costumes of their distant white cousins at Oxford and Cambridge. The white man's faith has also come with him to temper with Christian mercy the harsh superstitions of native paganism: Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British...
...squalor of beggar-strewn Lagos there are startling evidences of a middle-class prosperity: neat two-story homes in Ikoyi suburb, equipped with every modern convenience; a ramshackle bar in Shopono Street doing a hotcakes business in the best imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice, parrot beaks, snake fangs and yellow and blue face powders. On Sundays and pleasant evenings in Lagos, the folk who dress by day in rags emerge, as if by magic, in natty slacks and clean, yellow nylon sport shirts...
Nigeria divides naturally into three parts: the Moslem north, whose 16 mil lion are ruled by Moslem Emirs; the southwest, where the Yoruba people, led by Barrister Obafemi Awolowo, make their headquarters in the world's largest Negro city, Ibadan (pop. 459.000); and the southeast, which is Ibo-land, presided over by big-eared Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe, the flamboyant, U.S.-educated newspaper publisher whose oratory sways the Lagos mob. Usually, Ibo and Yoruba make common cause against the Moslem north; but last week their leaders were feuding over the flourishing port of Lagos...